TY - JOUR KW - Robotics KW - automation KW - legged robot KW - robot manipulation KW - LLM TI - Editorial: Rising stars in field robotics: 2022 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/frobt.2024.1379661 VL - 11 PB - Frontiers Media SA Y1 - 2024/02/14/ A1 - Kanoulas, Dimitrios A1 - Khattak, Shehryar A1 - Loianno, Giuseppe N2 - In an era where technological advancements shape our daily lives, recognizing emerging leaders in Robotics and Artificial Intelligence (AI) is not just important?it is imperative. ?The Future Leaders of Robotics and AI? Research Topic serves this very purpose. Our aim is to showcase the exceptional work of internationally recognized researchers in the early stages of their careers, heralding a new age of innovation and discovery. This carefully curated Research Topic not only highlights groundbreaking research across the vast expanse of Field Robotics but also presents significant advances in theory, experiment, and methodology. The application of these studies addresses compelling problems, paving the way for future breakthroughs. JF - Frontiers in Robotics and AI AV - public ID - discovery10188972 SN - 2296-9144 N1 - Copyright © 2024 Kanoulas, Khattak and Loianno. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. ER -